IV.
THE TEAM HAS DETERMINED THAT THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS WERE WRITTEN DURING THE PERIOD KNOWN AS THE GREAT GAME.
THEY ARE BY FAR THE MOST INCOMPLETE.
NEVERTHELESS, THEY PROVIDE A VALUABLE RECORD OF THAT MYSTERIOUS TIME IN OUR HISTORY AND OUR TEAM HAS PRESERVED AS MUCH AS HAS BEEN RECOVERED.
THEIR SOURCE OR SOURCES ARE UNKNOWN.
My father had a book on the history of Inquisitions. The Spanish and beyond. I remember the spine torn, its pages thumbed through with affection. Cover, frayed. I can’t find it now and I don’t remember the author’s name.
I do remember the images that gleaned its pages. The sketches and woodcuts that offered cartoonish glimpses at the horror of what those times entailed. The ingenious attempts at weeding out heretics from among the masses.
I thought, briefly, that these lessons had been learned. But if there is any true lesson that I have learned in my short, miserable life, it is that history forgets. People forget. Like children, they need to be reminded.
Often.
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